Tag: recipe
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All About Buttermilk
While I tell people that my favorite ingredient is pumpkin, that’s certainly true in the fall when pumpkins are in season. Pumpkin inspires me, and it’s what I’m known for…it’s my “signature ingredient.” But there’s another ingredient that I’m obsessed with, that I use every single day, and that I couldn’t live without. Buttermilk. Yet…
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A FRANK Tale: NYE 2013
Many of my readers have said they love my FRANK blogs more than any other, so I’ll try to blog about every FRANK dinner so you can all get a hint of what the experience was like for our diners. Please note that there are only a few photos of plated dishes on this blog…Jennie,…
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A FRANK Tale: Bread, Bread, Bread
In mid December of 2013, Jennie Kelley and I decided it was finally time for a FRANK theme that we had been toying with for more than a year: Bread. Homemade bread has been an integral part of our menus at FRANK since the very beginning, and diners always tell us that our homemade bread…
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How to Make the BEST Loaf of Bread on Planet Earth
Tough title to live up to, right? But I was literally stunned out of my mind when I tasted this bread the first time, and each time I’ve baked it since, it seems to get better. This bread makes people scream. Literally. What you are about to read is very, very long. After all, if…
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Homemade Garlic Naan Bread
Everyone loves flatbreads, from pitas to naan to foccacia, to the spongy fermented teff bread of Ethiopia: injera. Naan is the staple flatbread in India, and there are as many ways to make it as there are cooks. Naan is quick and easy to make, and for you guys who limit yourselves to the grill…
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Venison Meatballs
Venison is one of my favorite meats. The last meal I cooked before leaving to film MasterChef was venison tenderloin. (Ironically, the dish that sent me home in 5th place from MasterChef was venison tenderloin…I was trying to cook it the way Ramsay cooks it, rather than my own special way.) Venison is the most…